Agenda and Minutes for Meta-Gov Meeting, September 12th, 2023
Details
Time: Tuesdays at 11am ET (3pm UTC).
Google Meet Link: meet.google.com/ihz-hdvb-bbq
Stewards: @katherine.eth (ENS | Twitter), @nick.eth (ENS | Twitter), @5pence.eth (ENS | Twitter)
Agenda
- General DAO Updates
- Endowment Update (@karpatkey + @Steakhouse)
- DAO Tooling (Agora Updates)
- Reserved for Open Discussion
- ENS Small Grants Round - Update
Notes by @184.eth
Attendance
katherine.eth, nick.eth, 5pence.eth, charlie feng, coltron, elbagococina, gregskril, jeff lau, kent fenwick, limes.eth, maintainer, marcus estmcmxci, santinomics, sebastien derivaux, senad dilji, talya erdfarb, tomas, tyler caldonia, yitong zhang, 184.eth
1. General DAO Updates
ENS NYC Happy Hour
- ENS Happy Hour event during ETHNewYork is happening on September 23rd from 6-9pm (ET).
- Location is secured. NFT art is continuing to be refined.
- The forum post: ENS Happy Hour @ ETH NY 2023 will be updated when all is confirmed.
2. Endowment Update (@karpatkey + @Steakhouse)
Forum: 1) Endowment Monthly Reports & 2) ENS Financial Reporting by Steakhouse & 3) Karpatkey H1 2023 Review for the ENS Endowment.
Tomas | @karpatkey gave the weekly update.
- Finished withdrawing the staked portion and reallocated to 70/30 stETH/rETH exposure.
- Allocation of 50/30/20 into stETH/rETH/Others remains the goal.
- karpatkey continues the research and do due diligence phase.
- Information will be shared in the coming months following second tranche.
Santinomics gave an update on the Proposal for Endowment (Second Tranche)
[EP 4.x] [Executable] Fund the Endowment (second tranche)
- Main focus has been the new proposal
- Plan is to give two weeks for community feedback.
Sebastien presented the financial report for August 2023.
ENS Financial Reporting - August 2023
3. DAO Tooling (Agora Updates)
Yitong Zhang (Twitter), Kent Fenwick & Charlie Feng from agora.ensdao.org
- Agora are building tools for DAOs
- Yitong shares about previous build of a delegate dashboard and recent work with ENS on a new tool for proposals: agora.ensdao.org/proposals
- With existing proposal process in DAOs often being complex and having high operational demands, agora’s tool aims to streamline DAO operations and make it more accessible for the community.
- The goal is to make it as difficult as possible to make a mistake in the process of creating proposals.
- Kent demoed the new tool, including creating executable and social proposals.
- The tool integrates with Snapshot for voting and Github for documentation.
- Kent shared that the team is working on notification features.
Further Discussion
- Voting experience of the tool encourage ‘vote with reasons’.
- Questions and feedback are welcomed. Nick.eth has already provided useful input and changes are still to roll out.
- It’s intended to utilise this tool for the upcoming onchain proposals.
- Stewards will sync on the two onchain proposals and a possible social proposal.
4. Reserved for Open Discussion
ENS Small Grants Round - Update
- Submissions will open for Ecosystem & Public Goods Small grants on ensgrants.xyz shortly.
- Forum post here, and upcoming tweet from ENS DAO twitter account.